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List of company name etymologies
This is a list of company names with their name origins explained. Some origins are disputed.

''for similar etymological lists, see [[List of country name etymologies]], [[etymology]]

*[[Adobe Systems|Adobe]] - came from name of the river [[Adobe]] Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
*[[Apache Software Foundation|Apache]] - It got its name because its founders got started by applying [[patch]]es to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was 'A PAtCHy' server -- thus, the name Apache.
*[[Apple Computer|Apple]] - favourite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company [[Apple]] Computers if the otherhis colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 o'clockpm. Apple's [[Macintosh]] is named after a popular variety of apple sold in the US.
*[[Canon]] - from ''Kwanon'' the Buddhist god of mercy. The name was changed to Canon to avoid offending religious groups.
*[[Casio]] - from the name of its founder,  [[Kashio Tadao]] who had set up the company Kashio Seisakujo as a subcontractor factory.
*[[Cisco Systems, Inc.|Cisco]] - its not an acronymn but its the short for [[San Francisco|San Fran'''cisco''']]. 
*[[Compaq]] - using Comp, for [[computer]], and paq to denote a small integral object. 
*[[Corel]] - from the founder's name Dr. [[Michael Cowpland]]. It stands for '''CO'''wpland '''RE'''search '''L'''aboratory.
*[[Daewoo]] - the company founder Kim Woo Chong called it Daewoo which means "Great Universe" in Korean.
*[[Fuji]] - from the highest Japanese mountain Mount Fuji
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Exxon]] - a name contrived by Esso (Standard Oil of New Jersey) in the early 70s to create a neutral but distinctive label for the company. Within days of announcement of the name, Exxon was being called the "double cross company " but this eventually subsided.
*[[Google]] - the name started as a jokey boast about the amount of information the search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named '[[Googol]]', a word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders - Stanford grad students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to 'Google' !
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*[[3M]] - ''[[Minnesota]] [[Mining]] and [[Manufacturing]] Company'' started off by mining the material [[corundum]] used to make [[sandpaper]].